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Merci,cest très intéressant et complèt.

really amazing!

One analogy I use is... Everyone else (NT's) have been born with the ability to fly a 747. And they have manuals in their language if things go wrong. I/we were born without a pilots licence, we have no manuals, and the cockpit instruments are in another language. Yet we are still expected to fly.

I fully agree with you Dr. Tony. High functioning is a condition not a disability. The aspie brain is just wired differently. It can be challenging sometimes. However, many can acquire the social skills. It is indeed exhausting and hard earned. Many are very intelligent. NT is not the only way the world should be right 😄

I desperately want the social therapist idea in the school's. I have don't the OT, had our girls in play them more cbt therapy, and underental health doctor observation, but as a parent there are some things that need to come from others.

And on the wall behind you.

A light is flickering behimd you on the ceiling. It is driving me nuts.

as long as the average evaluates the above average, the above average will always be at a disadvantage!

A am a newly diagnosed woman of 60, with Autism. I know I have Aspies but they have been referred for ADHD too, blimey.

The one only professor Tony Attwood speaks to my soul ❤️🌟💯

I think Aspies focus on what they are good at. No point doing something they are not good at.

Dr Attwood. *ANANDAMIDE* Its the key to understanding the why of autism and the endocannabinoid network, that autistic people suffer from low levels of Anandamide production procurement and processing the neurotransmitter that is our *JOY* transmitter! Why cannabis alleviates so many of the symptoms of autism so well. Dr you are teaching the what of Autism but not the why of autism and we need to know the how and what is causing the problems with the endocannabinoid system sir! PLEASE because this is a epidemic that needs fixing asap because too many are lost to suicide addiction and the prison system. Please if you can get after the disease instead of the symptoms that would be great! Thank you for the video its helpful but triggering at the same time. I appreciate all the work you are doing very much! God bless you, yours and the autism community.

Dr. Tony you are doing such a meaningful work and it's impacting my life in such very positive way! For the first time I feel there is nothing wrong with me, I am just different and your supportive and kind words go straight to my heart ❤ I have been struggling as a child, as a teenager and now in my 30' with depression, anxiety and +10 years of addiction. Throughout my life I had a difficult time making and maintaining social relations and on top of that using verbal communication to express what I am thinking. It's so sad because I look like the others, I am actually pretty and a high achiever but when I am asked to make conversation due to the many thoughts passing through my mind I cannot chose an idea, and all that comes out is mumbling which ofc ends up with bulling, or being ridiculous in front of others. People think that I am stupid, or use sarcasm on me even my own mother when she wanted to prove a point she was using difficult questions that I could not answer, to show me she is right. Please continue providing us insight as this is so helpful to understand oneself, you are a wonderful human being 💛

Tony, you are lovely. Thank you.

Alan partridge

What’s the music for in the background

🙏 I thank God for finding you Dr. 🙏

I have learned to socialize by applying my analytical brain, the only difference is is that reading social cues wasn't intuitive as it was for everyone else

If DSM V Level 1 is Asperger, what is DSM V Level 2? And where is PDD-NOS in DSM V?

I was diagnosed at 36 albeit I'd be considered someone who has moved off the spectrum as my social understanding is in many ways superior to many neurotypicals; I was heavily socialised & have a neurotypical twin. I still however have what would be deemed intense interests albeit I wouldn't deem them special as they're in psychology, philosophy etc they very much colour the way I perceive the world & other people...the very fabric of reality. I hate how our special interests a are often perceived as being centred on rote memorisation of facts when I'm a highly abstract thinker which also pertains to social abstraction. I almost feel like I'm an Aspie & a neurotypical albeit that is a very binary way of thinking 😂😊. I've always felt quite alone as the vast majority of my friends (wide social circle) have always been neurotypical; I was generally always expected for the odd ball I was but I did feel the need to understand life from the neurotypical perspective - that's not to say that are neurotypicals are the same, they're as diverse as we are...you get bad people in all walks of life.

WHERER IS THESE COMPANYS HIRING IN IT WITH ASD ????? I AM HEAEA

I wish everyone would leave the music out of their videos when there is someone speaking. Love Dr Tony Atwood 👍🏼

funnily enough i had to fast forward the introduction as couldn't deal with the speaking over the music🙈

This guy couldn’t even diagnosis his own son living in his own house😂 Which means he didn’t care or he was incredibly distracted which is the same thing. Too little too late for these bullshit people. Meanwhile I can go to my kids soccer game and easily diagnose people with diabetes narcissism and other ailments purely by sight because I pay attention.

I'm a female who got diagnosed at the age of 41 near the end of 2020. I have always struggled to communicate and put into words the difficulties I experience as an autistic person with sensory issues and slow processing. Everything you said about the challenges you have as an autistic person and sensory issues is what I experience. Its difficult when you can appear calm on the outside but can be feeling like the world is collapsing on the inside. People don't understand and think you can cope when you can't. Thank you for putting this information out there so people can understand us better 😊

this was excellent

I've felt for a long time that this Drum & Bass track perfectly represents my neurosies: music.czcams.com/video/xI8KDwk6kb4/video.html&feature=share Always been calmed down by this type of fast music. It's like if he can keep ordrer in that tempo, I'm a happy guy 😅

I am surprised a Doctor would ascribe his own daughter's foray into the same field as his to "intuition". That is entirely baseless and unfalsifiable. Poor science doc

Why be cured or fixed if it isn’t a defect? I find that now that I am in my 50’s totally exhausting. No undiagnosong for me thank you. I am my pure self. Sorry. This is not progress in understanding. I am successful being single and not so social.

Ha! I was misdiagnosed, BPD, before I found I was Aspie. Mindfulness meditation and emotional processing groups to be the only parts of the program that helped me. Nothing helped me more than finding out it was Asperger's rather than BPD. I was able to stop masking altogether immediately. I used to mask for my mom. However, late at night, July 3rd, 2021, I watched your "Is it Asperger's" and went from 3 misdiagnoses... to 1 diagnosis that fit EVERYTHING I experienced.... and I already regarded Autism as evolution. So I went from being ashamed of my condition to being proud of it overnight... literally. July 4th, 2021 I (an American Aspie) had my own personal "Independence Day"... I was masking for 36 years, for the benefit of my narcissistic single mother. When I told her what it was and stopped masking, she tried picking a fight with me (I realized she did this to get me upset, because that's the only time she could outsmart me) .. since then, I have endless patience with her...... and now she's the one freaking out.

It truly is evolution.... once I stopped trying to mask..... and realized that my synesthesia was real, and not in my head.... not only that, but since I'm not masking anymore, it freed up energy, and I scored a 137 on the Stanford-Binet. We are the future.

I'm a 45 year old bloke. Life with Asperger’s without any diagnosis until a year ago has given me a really thick skin, but a lot of what Tony says, especially the points regarding social issues and school/learning really landed with me, to a point I got quite emotional. We all need a Tony Attwood in our lives because he's a remarkable man. Growing up would have been so much more manageable. At ~40:00 during the exploration of depression in ASD... almost as though Tony has been in my head. Describing the special interests and sudden disinterest thereof, acutely accurate. I shall refrain from including my own experiences with self-harm here, but the reasoning given for undertaking such a taboo action is again, acutely accurate - blocking out emotional pain with physical pain, and it being a calming thing. Furthermore, alcohol, opiates and cannabis used to disguise my own conditions and did so for almost 2 decades, so when I had a switch click in my head and quit everything overnight, every issue that was disguised came to the surface with a vengeance. It's taken nearly another decade to reconcile that. Amazing discussion. Insightful, sympathetic, informative and therapeutic. Thank you.

And remember this is only one part of a personality, try mixing it with an INFJ. IDIC.

You can’t teach Aspies to be socially successful, you can inform them that contrary to pop-psychology friends and family may not be the be all and end all for Aspies. Trying to train Aspies to be neurotypical and to fit in and the measure to which they disappear into a group is success. It’s not, it’s suppression of true uniqueness. People fear difference. Aspies get bullied because of the fear and ignorance of difference.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. TMS

Are Asperger’s patients being treated with TMS in attempts of improving symptoms or behaviors

Why does she keep mispronouncing Asperger's? He says it the correct way about 50 times and yet she persists in her mispronunciation.

Dr Tony thank you for all you do we are so lucky to have you in this world . As a late diagnosed adult you sound as if you are my father knowing so much about my condition , I learn so much from you. I wish the best for you and family and let not loose hope in you going back to your town with your wife one day

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Thank You!

What a beautiful Man, my god so compassionate and insightful. Seriously helpful !

A genetic neurological deformity - what's more to know?

Thank you! Kristy for your bravery and openness.

Three years on, "Ass-Burger's" can still be most vexing. Audience wishes its sufferers all the best. Cheers!

Undiagnosing asd seems weird to me. Almost as if becoming successful eradicates the condition. The psychologist who gave me my diagnosis formulated it very poignantly I believe: it's not that I don't know how to act or how to read people, it's the analysis involved in it. I very effectively analyse and adapt to social settings well after having done so my entire life (I'm 32 now). The diagnosis is, or at least should, revolve around how the brain functions rather than specifically how the person is dysfunctional - because being dysfunctional might well be due to an array of different mental health issues, depression etc... I don't know, that statement really frustrated me. The move should in asd research should be towards defining subcategories (much like differenting between aspergers and more cognitively challenged forms of asd) and moving the general perception of asd to not per definitoin be "weird or unsuccessful".

@ 12:20 ... my wife doesn't lack attention to details ... she is superhuman when it came to spotting errors ... my boss said she's not normal, you sure she's not a robot??? ... Quality Control?

Beautiful video, I loved the entire interview 👍 Thank you so much ☺️💓

I have watched maybe 6 videos of Prof Tony Attwood and am I the only one who thinks he is Aspi as well? I thought I noticed it in the first 5mins

What's the website for the items the ladies are showing?

I took plenty of notes. Thank you